Poet Larena Amin joined the discussion to explore different perspectives on socially-engaged artists’ practice and their responses to activism, healing, and self-expression. Early career artists and young adults contributed to this open session. We have made the recording of this discussion available online to increase access for more people.
This special event was funded by ArtFund.
Artists
Meera Shakti Osborne has a practice of collective healing through creative self-expression.
A.G is a DJ, producer and presenter from east London. Her work takes inspiration from American underground club music in Baltimore and New Jersey to Bollywood soundtracks.
Exhibitions
This video artwork was developed by young people working with video artist Eva Grace Bor. It is the result of a Peckham Platform programme that invited artist Meera Shakti Osborne and producer A.G. to run workshop sessions with our Youth Platform group.
Our Youth Platform presented a collaborative artwork at the 2021 Gala Festival in Peckham's Rye Park.
Projects
This three year initiative aims to establish a greater knowledge and understanding of community-led cultural activity.
This project celebrates the distinct dialogues of a multi-generational group of participants and mediums of ‘insistent archiving’ that preserve the wealth and variance of these narratives.
The project takes its title from a conversation that Bennett had with an older friend. Speaking out of tone, the artist was met with the reply “Yuh Figet Yuhself!”. The statement was made in jest but served as a reminder that she had literally and figuratively forgotten herself.
Resources
This digital tapestry is a collaborative work from artist Meera Shakti Osborne and producer A.G. made after working with a group of young people on the 2021 Digital Tapestry project.
Join us for a meditative Monday workshop at the Old Waiting Room to explore the processes of making and memory with artists Barbara Majek and Tyreis Holder guiding an experimental textiles session for young people aged 18-25. Music and light refreshments provided.
Farrah Gray, Youth Platform Co-ordinator, interviewed Osborne and A.G. about Digital Tapestry, a collaborative video artwork created by Youth Platform members in a 10 week programme of zoom workshops run by Osborne and A.G.
An afternoon of free performance art on Peckham Square co-developed with the South London Refugee Association.